Information Governance
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The Division for Information Governance (IG) forms part of the management portfolio of Strategy and Internationalisation.

 IG consists of three centres, namely Institutional Information, Business Intelligence​ and Information Policy


 The purpose of IG is to:​ 

  • Develop a vision for information and how information can create value for the organisation 
  • Provide management information, standard reports and analytics to support decision-making 
  • Support institutional strategy, planning and policy development 
  • Service institutional information requests 
  • Provide self-service functions for information retrieval 
  • Improve and extend information systems such as SUNStudent, SUN-i and HEMIS 
  • Support statutory reporting 
  • Process institutional permission requests 
  • Identify and mitigate information risks 
  • Develop a framework to comply with legislative requirements ​ 

IG supports the following strategic goals of the University: 

  • Enhancement of business intelligence capability to inform decision-making 
  • Development of management information dashboards 
  • Investigation into the size and shape of the University and the implementation thereof 
  • Enhancement of the strategic enrolment planning process 
  • Establishment of SU norms and standards 
  • Improving SU's international ranking profile ​